The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-08-14

tno lule llnltnltu hHEneT. ONtI tuc tnpio.
hoyers a cloud OF tobacco smoke; thick enough
sR E6 @sn g2m p eS Sp rssn %Ps
presented ~ this immense, dazzling. smoky
salon, with i.s swarm q men, women and
trHsscs hnrryinE along carrying twelve mugs
OF beer OF Il time; with it's newspaper sellers;
Soaue,a nHd ito e out w Of soup pate
1t Ia curious how little noise there is There |
arr NO cres no shouting q Tai,ers 70 evan
the applause Is phlegmatic. As for the pubic,
1t IL most decent and respectable and unsym.
who strut and swnggcr and wear strange hats
are obviously conceted but they are polite'
but polite because they are conceited.
THIS i; typical beer, saloon Of the Att
order. In other less distinguished establish
ments you lind smaller orchestra or no Or
chcstru ut all. In some tho mattresses are cos
tuned In some. empty barrels do service as
tables, but In all Of them you see the same np,
crowd, smoking and soaking. and pondering
over tho eternal anlinomieS In momeaa' 70,
s a@sy n aa S@ E e wRes
life Of Munich in beer pot, and the active life
OF the city in ceremonious salutation;
to 1 esn IsFs nS5nFg sHFsa ss'Ts'
strasse followed the Brienner strasse, which
Aihens and two Greek temples in the Co;
rinthian style, ADAPTED for us9 as picture ana
sculpture snSSries Then bearing to fes
structures the new and the old pinEaco.heIk;
!spent the morning in the Glyptothek a ,nt IN
up by another stroll through the town. vislts to
the churches, and general Inspection, anu Ia
the evening summed up my Impressions.
Munich is u curious and unique city. for 1t
was not produced by the normal phenomena
of tho slow agglomeration Of human beings
aS et o or has
from s bH to MSnc RSy
mushroom on hot bed carefully prepared ana
fortified with the. spawn Of Attic and Italian
S By sn on sy ns
enriched with churches museums. palaces;
p9rG9es s.a1nes Of a a
the broad streets laid out so admirably from the
pRan,oms sol Of all the CELEBRATED edces Of the
world appear before your eyes, one after the
and yet similar: and the more you look the |
more you are astonished to find in one and the
tGWn o%0s
the sight Of which has cost you 80 many long
Journeys For like the Empe , >, HMadr daIh;
copies or specimens OF all the famous monu:
ments which had struck him in the course Of
he he ES ecame m or ar The idea was rshs
royal and noble. and 1t must be confessed
ha tsse 'G aad a5ons a s mueR
dsshu and is the e, old do s9wn
OF Venice without the canals, and there q frag;;
luminous aridity! st. Marx s, tho Loegia di
hanI st. Paul ett''d ,nrros: the propyleaa the
Munich. The whole town seems to have been
built as homage to some mixed and pedantio
buildings are Greek-thc picture and sculpturs
galleries are styled Plnacothek and Glyptothek.
of Munich impress DelnK utterly
incOngruous In such climate as that OF rainy |
bavaria and one feels no 10y IN
fr9scoes. and there a monstrous structure OF
The new Pinacothek contains a. resume OF
the curious artistic movement which produced
hideous: it resembles in shape q gigantic
Saratoga trunk. and it is decorated eXterioriy
with iresc2es which wind and I weather ha aye
original oil sketches made for these frescoes
are preserved in the aallery inside de-, foE the
eerty. all celebrating the glory of the MeSenas
itac N craze on" to " when the Immense error
Of new Munich Is r, due: The at funniest
and ON one Side and Cor
ncus, Overlook, and another painter on the
other-the latter three mounted on winged
horse and charging under the direction OF
Minerva, three headed and bewigged lion
monster representing tho Zont" or rocco
their hair smoothly combed and correctly part
ed and over their 1880 frock coats they wear
on truly classical folds. Underneath the mon.
sler We see tomb in which are imprisoned
three madens draped ya sbe amo
The " monster s nf has only
arssts ' have 'T six heads and six bodies. to
say nothing of Minerva and the winged horse.
We feel sure on which side victory shall perch.
In another of klulDlclS sketches we see the |
Studio OF German art lists, OF the new school at
Rome" Outside Il ruined gate painters and
s artsc co Sin draped over her odfashoned
broadcoth. are seen crowded together and
sketch, and paint Transteverine models and
Roman peasants discussed as Bacchuses 9r the
bach, Gornelns, kienze, Peter Won Hoss. Over
beck. Thorwaldsen, Schwannthaler Rottmann
scnrandolph, and the Others who devoted their
lives and talents to the most colossal ana mis-
guided effort ever AIDE to resuscitate antiquity
In the museums in the churches, in the pal
s sn9yed un nGs aces for r de~eePins
and n6 a eny as
but also unlimited wall space for decoration.
acres of frosco and parasangs OF canvas And
his less iilustrious contemporaries are all very
learned and fully justified their philosophical
a literary point of view we must say that
thy Of a In the Of Mu1 5ss
the historian and the antiquary can detect no
errors, hesiod; Homer. the Bible the Chris
Herder. Fichte, Hegel. Creuzer and his treatise
on symbolism. are equally familiar, to these
erudite painters, for whom. ms ThSophile Gau-
tier has well said, art is little more than a
Kind OF writing which they use to render their
ideas-writing which is hieratic rather than
demIotic, and which one must know how to
Van Eyck, Durer. Cranach. Holbeln are all
we'll known 70 them; they, do not disdain
they have neglected TO do Is to open their eyes
to living nature. 10 look simply at men,
women. and children. at tho sky, ut verdure,
and ut water"
1t is indeed curious fact that these famous
Munich painters do not seem to have had the
power Of seeing anything directly. Their too
perfect artistic educa ion rendered them in
sensible to the actual spectacle of nature
They see everything through tho Dyes OF their
predecessors Furthcrmore. few, II any OF
them, nre printers. They scem to hate the
paiotte. and when once they have expressed
their idea coldly and ubstractly In charcoal
they leave their pupils to lay in the color:
These mon lack neither intelligence nor skill
no nj ~ yh thpv do lack pgaantiallv